{"id":4631,"date":"2012-11-15T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2449519"},"modified":"2012-11-15T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T20:12:00","slug":"cloud-computing-rackspace-primps-up-its-private-cloud-ware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-rackspace-primps-up-its-private-cloud-ware\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Rackspace Primps Up Its Private Cloud Ware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rackspace says it\u2019s gussied up its free Private Cloud Software, a k a Alamo, boosting remote support capabilities for on premise OpenStack-powered clouds, helping companies to monitor their private clouds, and providing more storage capabilities.<br \/>\nIt claims that since Alamo launched in April thousands of organizations in 125 countries \u2013 from Fortune 100s to colleges and research centers \u2013 have downloaded the product.<br \/>\nSome of the new features of the Private Cloud Software include highly scalable block storage, which turns external storage into an additional storage volume for a private cloud environment based on OpenStack Cinder;  object storage powered by OpenStack Swift, which lets users create massively scalable storage resource pools that can be used by a Rackspace Private Cloud environment for storing files as well as server images, taking advantage of commodity hardware to reduce costs; and monitoring apps, Graphite and Collectd, to extend the monitoring and alerting capabilities available to private cloud environments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2449519\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rackspace says it\u2019s gussied up its free Private Cloud Software, a k a Alamo, boosting remote support capabilities for on premise OpenStack-powered clouds, helping companies to monitor their private clouds, and providing more storage capabilities.<br \/>\nIt &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}